Improvement in neck-yokes of harness



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Letters Patent Na 1140,932, dated January 10, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN NECK-YOKES OF HARNESS.

` The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part ofthe sam'e.

' a To all whom 'it may concern." g

Be it `known that I, ALBERT PARLIMAN, of Pal- 1nyra,ri'n theconnty ofWayne and State 'of N ew York, 'havejnxjented a certain new and improyedAttach- 'nientV forNeclr-Yokes of Harness, of which the followingis aspecification.

- Nature' of the I avent/ion..

My invention consists in a device of peculiar con` struction attached tothe straps' of the haines, and

holding the ring or strap of the neck-yoke, as herein,

after described.

General `Description. In the drawingliig'ure 1 is va perspeeltiye viewof the hames'and neck-yoke, with my' attachment combined therewith.

Figure 2, a similar view of -the attachment, wit

theV parts separated. f

. Figure 3, a verticalsection ofthe attachment.

The attachment consists of a body, A, and tongue B. `The body has acentral depending bear-ingu, made of curved forni and open at the top,in which ts the l ring or strap ofthe neck-yoke. A i 1t also has at theends strap-loops, l) l), into which buckleft-he hamestraps, one on eachside; and it has,

- the heme-strap, which buckles around it, and also by a shoulder, f,whiohts inside the loop.

The strain ofthe strap upon the tongue will always hold it down ycloselyupon thebearing ot' the neck-yoke ring, thus keeping it in place.

The advantage of-this attachment is that it fasteus the neck-yoke ringcent-rally between the two hamestraps, thereby preventing undue lateralaction caused by sliding either one way or the other.Y The tongue alsoholds the neck-yoke ring down.

The attachment heretofore in use has been a simple ring resting looselyupon the haine-strap,` which extended in one entire loop from side .toside of the haines. In such anarrangement the ring slides loosely uponthe strap,'and the irregular lateral motion of the wagon-pole, causingthe ring to' vibrate hack and forth upon the strap, is exceedingtroublesome and tiresome to the horses, besides soon wearing out thestrap.

W'hat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The body A,formed with a central depending bearing, a, strap-loops b b, andcross-bars c c, whenY used in eonnectionwith the tongue B, thehaine-straps, and

Witnesses:

R. F. Oscoop, Gr. WXLLM. MIATT.

